Understanding self

2nd year B.Sc Nursing
communication and educational technology
unit-3 Human Relations

1. UNDERSTANDING SELF BY, VEDANTHA VINOD ASSISTANT LECTURER CCON-MYSORE

2. CONTENTS TO BE DISCUSSED : MEANING COMPONENTS DEVELOPMENT OF BOTH SELF-CONCEPT AND SELF-ESTEEM

3. MEANING   UNDERSTANDING SELF is the sense of self-perception of our motives while we act is called as self-understanding or understanding self.

4. It has got two important entities: Self-concept: Picture or perception of ourselves. Self-esteem: Feelings we have about ourselves.

5. SELF-CONCEPT Self-Concept is the way someone thinks or perceives about themselves. It is an important term for both social psychology and humanism. It is also referred as “self-construction, self-identity, self-perspective or self-structure".

6. COMPONENTS OF SELF-CONCEPT Based on 'social identity theory, self-concept is comprised of two key parts—personal identity and social identity.

7. 1. Personal identity: These are individual personality traits and other features (physical and psychological) that make a person unique. 2. Social identity: These are the social characteristics of the groups we belong to; such as community, religion, college and various other social groups.

8. BRACKEN (1992) Bracken (1992) identified six specific domains of self-concept: 1.Social: Refers to the pattern and the ability of interacting with others. 2. Competence: Refers to the ability of meeting one's own basic needs.

9. 3. Affect: Denotes to awareness of the changing emotional states. 4. Physical: Signifies the views about our physique, health status and overall appearance. 5. Academic: Indicates the ability to realize the success or failure in an academic context (school/college). 6. Family: Refers to functions of an individual within the family unit.

10. HUMANIST PSYCHOLOGIST CARL ROGERS Humanist psychologist Carl Rogers proposed that there were three components of self-concept: 1. Self-image (How we see or perceive ourselves): One must understand that self-image does not essentially coincide with reality or the practicality.

11. 2. Self-esteem (How much we value ourselves): The common factors which influence self-esteem are the individual's attitude of comparing themselves to others and how others respond to them. 3. Ideal self(How we wish we could): Mostly, all people would have an expectation of their own. These expectations may be sometime unfitting and not matching up with the individual characteristics.

12. DEVELOPMENT OF SELF-CONCEPT Self-concept is the feeling of being unique compared to others and the awareness of the steadiness related to one's self. The period at which self-concept develops in an individual is debatable. It is assumed that gender stereotypes and parents' expectations influences children's understanding of themselves, by around 3 years of age.

13. THE CONCEPT OF ACADEMIC SELF-CONCEPT Self-concept in an academic environment refers to the personal philosophies and attitude about their academic capacities or skills.

14. Self-concept held by an individual is not only influenced by their parents, but also highly influenced by the early educators. Children start assessing their academic abilities by comparing themselves to their peers by the age of 10 or 11. These social comparisons are called self-estimates.

15. SELF-ESTEEM Self-esteem refers to a complete subjective emotional appraisal of one's own worth. It is a way of introspecting and judging oneself as well as the attitude toward self.

16. DEVELOPMENT OF SELF ESTEEM Life experience is a major source for the development of self-esteem. Parenting style during the child's early life, creates a major impact on self-esteem and act as a main foundation of positive and negative experiences during the child's growth.

17. Nonjudgmental attitude and unconditional love from parents aids a child to develop a sense of being cared, treasured and protected. It was found that school children who have high self-esteem tend to have caring and understanding parents, who set clear standards for the children and permit them to voice out their opinion in decision making.

18. CONCLUSION UNDERSTANDING SELF SELF-CONCEPT SELF-ESTEEM

19. BIBLIOGRAPHY L Gopichandran and C Kannimmal’s , Essentials of Communication and Education Technology, 2 nd Edition 2020 , Published by Sathish Kumar jain and produced by Varun jain for CBS Publishers and Distributors Pvt Ltd, New Delhi,INDIA. Page No:- 47 to 49

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